SON OF WALTER PALMER II REBECCA SHORT
"Elihu Palmer, the oldest son of the second wife of Walter Palmer, died at twenty-nine years, from a wound inflicted accidently by himself, on this wise. He was mowing marsh grass near the Cove, with a scythe, on the other end of which was a spear, and seeing a fish (flounder) in the water, he turned his scythe quickly and thrust the spear into the fish, when the scythe caught upon his neck, cutting him so terribly, that after a time death resulted from the effects of the wound."
Source: Excerpt from Grace Denison Wheeler, The Homes of Our Ancestors in Stonington Connecticut (Newcomb & Gauss, Salem, Massachusetts, 1903) at page 239, published online by Open Library at https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6931579M/The_homes_of_our_ancestors_in_Stonington_Conn.
contributor:Dorothy (#47601262)
"Elihu Palmer, the oldest son of the second wife of Walter Palmer, died at twenty-nine years, from a wound inflicted accidently by himself, on this wise. He was mowing marsh grass near the Cove, with a scythe, on the other end of which was a spear, and seeing a fish (flounder) in the water, he turned his scythe quickly and thrust the spear into the fish, when the scythe caught upon his neck, cutting him so terribly, that after a time death resulted from the effects of the wound."
Source: Excerpt from Grace Denison Wheeler, The Homes of Our Ancestors in Stonington Connecticut (Newcomb & Gauss, Salem, Massachusetts, 1903) at page 239, published online by Open Library at https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6931579M/The_homes_of_our_ancestors_in_Stonington_Conn.
contributor:Dorothy (#47601262)
SON OF WALTER PALMER II REBECCA SHORT
"Elihu Palmer, the oldest son of the second wife of Walter Palmer, died at twenty-nine years, from a wound inflicted accidently by himself, on this wise. He was mowing marsh grass near the Cove, with a scythe, on the other end of which was a spear, and seeing a fish (flounder) in the water, he turned his scythe quickly and thrust the spear into the fish, when the scythe caught upon his neck, cutting him so terribly, that after a time death resulted from the effects of the wound."
Source: Excerpt from Grace Denison Wheeler, The Homes of Our Ancestors in Stonington Connecticut (Newcomb & Gauss, Salem, Massachusetts, 1903) at page 239, published online by Open Library at https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6931579M/The_homes_of_our_ancestors_in_Stonington_Conn.
contributor:Dorothy (#47601262)
"Elihu Palmer, the oldest son of the second wife of Walter Palmer, died at twenty-nine years, from a wound inflicted accidently by himself, on this wise. He was mowing marsh grass near the Cove, with a scythe, on the other end of which was a spear, and seeing a fish (flounder) in the water, he turned his scythe quickly and thrust the spear into the fish, when the scythe caught upon his neck, cutting him so terribly, that after a time death resulted from the effects of the wound."
Source: Excerpt from Grace Denison Wheeler, The Homes of Our Ancestors in Stonington Connecticut (Newcomb & Gauss, Salem, Massachusetts, 1903) at page 239, published online by Open Library at https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6931579M/The_homes_of_our_ancestors_in_Stonington_Conn.
contributor:Dorothy (#47601262)
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Grave not marked and he is not listed in the 1934 Hale Collection survey of this cemetery, indicating he had no legible marker at that time either.
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